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Robert Fogel

"Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or 'cliometric' history-born of the marriage contracted between historical problems and advanced statistical analysis, with economic theory as bridesmaid and the computer as best man-has made tremendous advances in the last generation."

Source : Robert William Fogel, Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (1983). “Which Road to the Past?: Two Views of History”, p.2, Yale University Press

Robert Fogel

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“Faith is not an easy virtue; but, in the broad world of a person's total voyage through time to eternity, faith is not only a gracious companion, but an essential guide.”
“Na razrusha'ya.ï»¿ I am not ruined. ï»¿E'ya razrushostï»¿. I am ruination.”
“On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.”
“Game over," you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.”
“The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...”
“We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Photographers tend not to photograph what they canâ€™t see, which is the very reason one should try to attempt it. Otherwise weâ€™re going to go on forever just photographing more faces and more rooms and more places. Photography has to transcend description. It has to go beyond description to bring insight into the subject, or reveal the subject, not as it looks, but how does it feel?”
“So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.”

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